Man with Pipe
Painting by Jean Metzinger / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Man with Pipe (French: Le Fumeur) is a Cubist painting by the French artist Jean Metzinger. It has been suggested that the sitter depicted in the painting represents either Guillaume Apollinaire or Max Jacob.[1][2][3] The work was exhibited in the spring of 1914 at the Salon des Indépendants, Paris, Champ-de-Mars, March 1–April 30, 1914, no. 2289, Room 11.[4] A photograph of Le Fumeur was published in Le Petit Comtois (Au Salon des Indépendants, Les chefs-d'œuvre modernes), 13 March 1914, for the occasion of the exhibition.[5] In July 1914 the painting was exhibited in Berlin at Herwarth Walden’s Galerie Der Sturm, with works by Albert Gleizes, Raymond Duchamp-Villon and Jacques Villon.[6][7]
Man with Pipe | |
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French: Le Fumeur | |
Artist | Jean Metzinger |
Year | c. 1912-13 |
Medium | Oil on canvas |
Dimensions | 129.7 cm × 96.68 cm (51.06 in × 38.06 in) |
Location | Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh |
Le Fumeur, titled Man with Pipe and dated c. 1912, forms part of the permanent collection of the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (gift of G. David Thompson, 1953).[8]